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Many a serious thinker has been produced in prisons, where we have nothing to do but think.

Robert Greene

Mastery is not a function of genius or talent. It is a function of time and intense focus applied to a particular field of knowledge.
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Function Genius Knowledge Master Talent Time
Strike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter.
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Advice Attack Deep Destruction War
Some people are a little bit better than others, some people are great, some people are superior. It depends on the level of effort.
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Better Effort Greatness Level People Superior
Everybody in life is struggling for power, and some people use morality and righteousness as a weapon, while others use different means, even passive aggression. From a distance, we are all fighting, and I am looking at this from a distance.
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Distance Fight Life Morality Myself Passive Power Right Struggle
The human tongue is a beast that few can master.
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Human Master Power Voice Word
You’re not going to be persistent and tenacious enough if you don’t love what you’re doing. If it’s not something that excites you, that appeals to you deep down inside.
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Appeal Enough Excitement Love Persistence Yourself
If you’re just letting the time pass at your job, it’s just dead time and you’ll never get it back. If at that job you’re learning and you’re observing and you’re seeing about people and connections, it’s suddenly alive time.
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Alive Death Job Observation Time Yourself
I just do what I want to do without hurting other people and you know, I wish other people would do the same.
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Hurt Myself People
Never waste valuable time, or mental peace of mind, on the affairs of others – that is too high a price to pay.
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Mindset Pay Peace Price Value Wasted Time
The truth is that creative activity is one that involves the entire self – our emotions, our levels of energy, our characters, and our minds.
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Character Creativity Emotion Level Mindset Ourselves Truth
Do not leave your reputation to chance or gossip; it is your life’s artwork, and you must craft it, hone it, and display it with the care of an artist.
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Art Artist Care Chance Gossip Leaving Life Reputation Work Yourself
Become who you are by learning who you are.
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Discover Learning Yourself
Boldness makes even the smallest animal dangerous.
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Animal Bold Dangerous Small
Mistakes and failures are precisely your means of education. They tell you about your own inadequacies.
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Education Failure Mistake Yourself
If you have no enemies, find a way to make them.
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Enemy Way Yourself
When it comes to power, outshining the master is perhaps the worst mistake of all.
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Master Mistake Power Shine Worst

Many a serious thinker has been produced in prisons, where we have nothing to do but think.

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